Necktie-holder.



of H.1OHLY. NEGKTIB HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED QEPTH'I, 1910.

Patented Jan.23,1912.

iOL MBlA PLANOGRAPH Cu" WASHINGTON, D. c.

CHARLES H. OI-ILY, OF SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY.

NEGKTIE-I-IOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

Application filed September 7, 1910. Serial No. 580,818.

To all "whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. OHLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Summit, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a holder upon which a necktie can be tied and then said holder secured in proper position on the wearer; to provide an attaching means which is easily operated, is secure, and yet allows enough freedom of movement to prevent a stiff appearance of the tie; to secure a fixed relation between the body portion of the holder and its attaching means; to enable the holder to fit collars of differentheights; to secure a simple and inexpensive construction which is easy to operate, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description. v

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout the several figures, Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved necktie holder in its preferred form, with a four-in-l1and tied thereon; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the holder with the tie removed; Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the attaching portion of the holder, taken on line AA, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 shows my invention as applied to a ready-made necktie, and Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of my improved holder made of wire as in Fig. 1 and provided with a plurality of attaching sockets.

In said drawings, and particularly Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 5, 1 indicates a wire frame constituting the body portion of the holder, said body portion having lateral loops 2, 2 adapted to project under the wings of a collar, a vertical outer loop 3 around which the tie is to be tied, and a vertical inner extension 4 carrying the attaching means 5. As shown, the said vertical loop 3 is closed and the wire twisted at the top thereof, as 6, and then diverging to form the lateral loops 2, 2, and again brought together and twisted at an opposite lower point 7. This forms resilient lateral loops 2, 2 which will yield more or less, according to the height of a collar, and a central vertical downward extension 3 to tie the neck-tie around.

The attaching means comprises a socket 8 with a tubular neck 9 and an enlarged inner chamber 10, similar to the socket member of a glove fastener and adapted to receive the ball-like head of a collar button (no-t shown). Said socket has a flange 1L at the end of its neck 9 which is pressed back against a tab 12 of leather or the like through which the said neck extends and which tab provides a finger piece 13 for the wearer to grasp in removing the tie. The ends of the wire of which the body portion 1 is formed extend beyond the twist 7 around the neck 9, between the tab 12 and enlarged head 14: of the socket, and are clamped there by the flange 11. Either a single attaching socket may be thus secured to the holder, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or the ends of the wire can be twisted together after bending around the first socket and then extend around another socket, as shown in Fig. 5. Any desired number of attaching sockets may in this manner be provided in a vertical series. .Thus each attaching socket is firmly and rigidly secured to the body portion or frame 1, and lies at the back of'a tie 15 which may be tied upon the holder as shown in Fig. 1. When the socket 8 is pressed onto a collar button, it is secure thereon against any tendency to displacement except a pull straight forward or outward, which is not likely to occur except when intentionally given by the tab 12 in removing the necktie. The entire body portion or framework of the holder is rigid with respect to the socket 8 or at taching means 5, and the resiliency of the loops 2, 2 fits the tie nicely and perfect-1y to the collar, the ball-and-socket connection at the collar button allowing the whole tie to assume an easy and natural position.

In adapting my invention to a ready-made necktie, the socket 16, with its finger tab 17 is seated directly on a downward extension 118 of the card board frame or form 18 of the tie, as shown in Fig. 4. The silk or other material 19 of the tie is then attached to the said form in such manner as to ex-,

pose the socket at the back of the tie. Since in this kind of a necktie there is little or no resiliency of the frame or form 18, I prefer.

to employ two or more sockets in a vertical line as shown, and both can-be mounted in the same tab 17. With a low collar, theframe with the tie on it is then pushed under the wings of the collar until the socket 8 is opposite the head of the collar button, when with the thumb backing up the collar button and a finger on the enlarged head 12 a slight.

pressure forces the head of the but-ton int-o the chamber 10 of the socket, thus fastening the holder in place. The ready made tie is put on in like manner with one exception, z'. e., the finger presses against the front of the tie and so against the head of the socket I instead of directly against said head.

The card board forms for ready made ties may be made in quantities as an article of manufacture like the other kind, and ties afterward mounted on said forms with the edges of the goods under the margins of the leather tab and around the neck of the socket,

as indicated by dotted lines 20.

Obviously frames diflering in details from those which I have positively shown and described could be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as claimed, and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself in that respect except as the state of the art may require.

- Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

tension and tab and clamping them together. 7 2. A necktie holder comprising a rearwardly opening socket-piece adapted to receive the ball head of a collar-button, said socket-piece having front and rear flanges adapted to clamp toward each other, and a wire bent intermediate of its ends to form a forward downward extension and lateral resilient loops adapted to extend under the -wings of a collar and a rear downward extension, the end portions of the wire forming said rear downward extension and the ends of the wire being curled around the said socket-piece and its extremities clamped and inclosed between the front and rear flanges thereof, whereby the said ends and extremities of the wire are firmly connected and at the same time covered and concealed, the holder consisting aside from said socketpiece of an endless piece of wire.

3. A necktie holder comprising a piece of resilient wire bent into two opposite lateral loops adapted to project under the wings of a collar, the upper arms of said loops being twisted together at their junction and the wire formed therebeyond into a depending elongated loop around which a tie can be tied, the lower arms of the said opposite lat- I eral loops being twisted together at their adj acent ends and forming a downward extension lying at the rear of the said depending loop, and a socket-piece around which the ends of the Wire forming said rear extension are wrapped, said socket-piece having opposite clamping flanges between which the iextremities of said ends are clamped and covered and being open rearwardly to receive the ball-head ofa collar button, whereby the said socket-piece provides attaching means and also connects'the ends of the wire.

CHARLES II. OHLY.

In the presence of RUssnLL M. EVERETT, FRANCES O. BLODGETT.

7 Copies of this patent ma; he obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

